Palm Sunday (Western Christianity)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS
Begum/Princess Inaara Aga Khan [born Gabriele Renate Homey, then changed to Thyssen (1963-1991); Princess Gabriele of Leiningen (1991-1998)] {1963} [(pending?) ex-wife of Prince/Shah Karim al-Hussayni, Aga Khan IV (married in 1998)]
Prince Nicholas of Romania {1985} [son of Princess Elena of Romania (daughter of King Michael I of Romania)]
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
286 Emperor Diocletian of the Roman Empire elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.
325 Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China.
457 Majorian is acclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire by the Roman army.
527 Emperor Justin I of the Byzantine Empire names his nephew, Justinian I, as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
1947 Paul/Pavlos I becomes King of Greece {King of the Hellenes}, on the death of his childless elder brother King George/Georgios II .
1979 Iran becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah (Shah/Shahanshah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran).
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTH
1220 Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d.1272)
DEATHS
1085 Emperor Shenzong of Song China
1204 Eleanor/Alienor/Eleonore "of Aquitaine", Duchess of Aquitaine + Countess of Poitiers (1137-1204), Queen consort of France {Queen consort of the Franks} (1137-1152), Queen consort of England (1154-1189)
1205 King Amalric II [of Lusignan] of Jerusalem + Cyprus
1922 Emperor Karl/Karoly/Carlo/Karol I of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary [as the IV], King of Bohemia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, Illyria, Galicia + Lodomeria, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Krakow, Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola + the Bukovina, Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia, Duke of Upper + Lower Silesia, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Teschen, Friuli + Ragusa, Princely Count of Habsburg + Tyrol, Kyburg + Gorizia, Prince of Trent + Brixen, Margrave of Upper + Lower Lusatia + in Istria, Count of Sonnenberg, Lord of Trieste + the Windic March, Grand Duke of Serbia, etc.
1947 King George II of Greece {King of the Hellenes 1922-1924 & 1935-1947}
1993 Infante Juan of Spain, Count of Barcelona
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